Keith, I like to have at least four of whatever pattern/color I carry. More when your talking about patterns I use all year. As a tier it's no big deal to do that, just time. I did some quick math here and if you want this list complete on your person going by if you walk into a flyshop figuring there are a possible 63 flies x four of each kind/color/beads/no beads taken into consideration here, you could be looking at a $500.00 dollar bill give or take. I'm by no means trying to discourage you just thinking you're going to want to find a source of cheap but good quality flies. ( unfortunately I do not know of any, if you don't get some ideas in here I'd post the question else where on the forum for some answers. Doing a search on this could prove helpful also )The reason for have that number of flies is you'll surely lose one to a snapped tippet, the bottom, bushes, trees, ect. The last thing you want to do is run out of flies in the middle of a hot hatch.You can only have so many on you at once, and you gotta stop somewhere. But then if you're going out to a specific hatch for a day/weekend the number goes up quite a bit. The above number is really for walking around flies the ones you have on you all the time. Hatch/time specific flies that you only have on you for a given amount of time are different. Hope this helps you somewhat.

Posted on: 2014/3/7 10:19

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